Category: News Critique

A Letter To Dick Cheney – Congratulations On Your Stunning Victory In Iraq.

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So, yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Ex_Vice President Dick Cheney, blasting now President Barrack Obama for screwing up the middle East, saying about Obama: “Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many,” And “Instead, he abandoned Iraq and we are watching American […]

Thursday June 19th, 2014 in Journalism, News Critique, Politics / Law Stuff, Stupid Government, Stupidity / Satire, Tortured Logic | 2 Comments »

The Great Recession Revisited.

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Recently, a facebook friend posted an old Forbes article from 2009, blaming the entire financial crisis on the Federal Government. I wrote a couple of previous posts here and here rebutting that idea, but I thought it would be interesting to look at it in relation to the specific Forbes article in question. Lets take […]

Wednesday June 11th, 2014 in Economics, Journalism, News Critique, Tortured Logic | No Comments »

More WND Fun… They Never Fail To Amaze.

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They say the Devil is in the details, but he’s often in the details that get left out. An article by one “news” organization that specializes in leaving out details is making the rounds on facebook today… It’s none other than World Net Daily, an information outlet that I’ve had fun debunking in the past […]

Tuesday May 27th, 2014 in Journalism, Junk Science / Fraud / Malpractice, News Critique, Stupidity / Satire | 1 Comment »

“Are We Not News! We Are CNN”

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Yeah… I’m paraphrasing DEVO… Badly. CNN President Jeff Zucker is crowing about how his network “won’t be shamed” into covering the latest hearings on Benghazi. Um… OK. On his networks around-the-clock ridiculous coverage of flight 239: “If I take a step back from our coverage of the Malaysian plane’s disappearance, I’m incredibly comfortable with it. […]

Wednesday May 21st, 2014 in News Critique | No Comments »

Setting The Record Straight… At Least Some Of It!

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Late last night, when i got home from my awesome gig with my band Laurel Canyon, I was amp’d up as usual after a good gig, and roamed the intertubes for a bit.  I came across this Huff-Po bit concerning every liberals favorite punching bag, Sarah Palin: Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care I […]

Sunday November 17th, 2013 in Journalism, News Critique, Politics / Law Stuff, Stupid Government | No Comments »

Climate Science Writer…. Smack Down!!!!

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Over at Juduth Curry’s excellent climate blog Climate Etc, there is an interesting conversation going on concerning a rebuttal by The Economist against an article from The New Republic which was a rebuttal against a previous article from the Economist! Got that? Yeah, it gets complicated after a while. But it’s fun to watch as […]

Friday June 21st, 2013 in Climate.... Just Climate, Global Warming Hysteria, Journalism, Junk Science / Fraud / Malpractice, News Critique, Politics / Law Stuff, Science / Teacher Stuff | No Comments »

Words Fail….. More Evidence That The GOP Has Gone Nuts

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This article SHOULD show how building a fence to stop illegal immigration is a hopelessly flawed idea. Instead… Well… I think it’s supposed to show that McCain and Schumer are letting illegals into the country…. Or something. Idunno. The comments are priceless! Here’s one: “And the son-of-a-bitch did nothing to stop it?! Yet, he can […]

Thursday March 28th, 2013 in News Critique, Politics / Law Stuff, Stupidity / Satire | No Comments »

When The Name Doesn’t Represent The Content…. Part 2 *UPDATE* Post Is Void!

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UPDATE – Dan B came to the rescue. Thankfully, he wrote a nice post on the topic, so this post is mute. So, it’s March 26th, and the Supreme Court hear the arguments for the Prop 8 case concerning the legality and Constitutionality of same sex marriage. Guess which blog that has the name Gay […]

Tuesday March 26th, 2013 in Blog Admin Stuff, Frogs, Gay., Journalism, News Critique, Politics / Law Stuff | 2 Comments »

The Hoax, And What It Shows About The Media, And Us.

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By now you’ve all heard about the Manti Te’o hoax. Details so far are here. I’m not going to go into details about the hoax, as this is just breaking and I’m sure there is much more that will come out.  Here is the point I want to touch on. Within, and outside of the […]

Friday January 18th, 2013 in Journalism, News Critique, Politics / Law Stuff, Sports And Leisure | No Comments »

Snow Fall! Journalism Success… And Fail!

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Here is the latest web offering from the New York Times. It’s being touted as the future of web content, and will supplant blogs and newspapers as our source for information. Layout wise, it is impressive. But are they expecting us to want to read, or, for those of us wading in the blog-pool, produce, […]

Monday December 24th, 2012 in Journalism, News Critique | No Comments »